Legion Alpha coverage continues with a look at zone updates, spoilers, and UI improvements. Catch up on our recent coverage with our models post including new Doomhammer offhands and data post with updated spells and items like Thunderfury quest items!\r\r\r\rNPC, Mission, Quest Updates\rThe Legion database has now been updated with NPCs and Quests. Here are the highlights:\r\rNew Champions - some of these champions are not what you'd expect for specs, so we put them under a spoiler tag:\rBlood DK: Nazgrim\rFrost DK: Grande inquisitrice Blanchetête\rFrost Mage: Meryl Gangrorage\rMarksmanship Hunter: Hemet Nesingwary\rRetribution Paladin: Délas Croc-de-Lune\rLa touche finale rewards the pet Batterie de Reeves\rJeune pastenague is a new pet sold by Nat Pagle.\rAzsuna is open and quests for the zone are up.\r\r\rNotable Missions:\rLoramus, c’est toi ? provides a followup on Loramus, a Demon Hunter involved in a heroic questline in the Blasted Lands. In Son nom est Rakh’likh, Loramus defeated Razelikh by trapping the demon in his body. The mission text states: "The dreadlord, Razelikh the Defiler has returned to the world in a new body. Strangely, he sometimes goes around killing the other demons at the Felblaze Ingress in Azsuna. Stranger still, while doing so, he refers to himself as Loramus Thalipedes, the famous demon hunter who killed him long ago in the Blasted Lands! Send your forces to Azsuna to investigate."\rSome missions send you to work with the Wardens: Coopération avec les Gardiennes : Fathnyr, Coopération avec les Gardiennes : l’île du Guet, Coopération avec les Gardiennes : Mellok, fils de Torok, Coopération avec les Gardiennes : Skul’vrax\rOne of Al'akir's Lieutenants has sided with the Burning Legion! Les ennemis de Tonneraan : Alacris, Les ennemis de Tonneraan : Brumius, Les ennemis de Tonneraan : Tulmos, Les ennemis de Tonneraan : Zeph\r\rZone Updates\rAzsuna is a new questing zone that opened today on the Alpha, but some other zones have notable details!\r\rThe Mage Order Hall received a number of visual updates to bring it more in line with the other lavish Order Halls. We have an earlier video if you want to compare the zone to the current version, pictured below:\r\r \r\rThe Alliance area in Dalaran has received extra Gilneas-themed drapery and candles:\r\r\rDue to a glitch with locked players in raids, several were able to explore Suramar Palace:\r\r\rUI Improvements\r\rOrder Hall Portals\rThe Order Hall Portals in Dalaran now appear on your map and minimap. Several builds ago, player teleports were removed in favor of portals in themed locations in Dalaran.\r\r\rArtifact UI\rThe Artifact UI now displays the locked third trait when you are not max level, as well as a helpful tooltip. Previously, it would only display 2 traits. \r\r\rRelic Tooltips\rIn-game relic tooltips now display the description of the artifact trait they buff, similar to the display in the Artifact Weapon Calculator. Previously they just showed the name of the trait.\r\r\rInterface Options\rThe Interface options are much more streamlined now.\r\rAlleria and Turalyon Spoilers\rClick the spoiler button to learn about Alleria and Turalyon.\r\rArator is the son of Alleria and Turalyon. Previously, players could find him in Hellfire Peninsula, and in Legion, he is found in the Paladin Order Hall.\r\rIn the latest build, his parents have a message for him:\rVindicator Boros: The vessel...it senses young Arator's presece!\rHigh Exarch Turalyon: If you can hear this, your mother and I have an important message for you.\rAlleria: For a thousand years, we have been hunting the Burning Legion across the stars.\rHigh Exarch Turalyon: We do not expect you to forgive us for leaving, but we did it out of love for you. To ensure your safety and the survival of our world, we chose to make this sacrifice. \rAlleria: We failed in the final battle, and it is unlikely we will survive. My son, we have one final message for you and the heroes of our world.\rHigh Exarch Turalyon: The Burning Legion will come in full force to Azeroth. These armies are led by Balnazzar, Gul'dan and Kil'jaeden. These three must fall before you can hope to defeat Sargeras.\rAlleria: Azeroth is the last light of hope, Arator. Fight, or all is lost.\rHigh Exarch Turalyon: Farewell, son. May the Light guide you.\rArator: My parents risked much to send us this warning. We must act.\r

Commentaire de LordBarbarian

Commentaire de Bulter

I'm kind of ambivalent about the class\/order halls. They look great and I hope they turn out to be fun, but on the other hand I feel as though they will just be Garrisons 2.0.

Commentaire de michelus

on 2016-03-31T06:18:06-05:00

Damn, the new additions to the Mage order hall blows the Hunter's Trueshot Lodge out of the water. :(

Commentaire de Silverhallow

on 2016-03-31T06:56:39-05:00

OK, bad dudes of this expansion are: Balnazzar, Gul'dan (Confirmed), Kil'jaeden and possibly on Mythic or Heroic some kind of Avatar of Sargeras.

Commentaire de Random0056

on 2016-03-31T07:14:50-05:00

Interesting spoilers for Alleria and Turalyon! I'm actually getting more excited for Legion. That said, Suramar Palace is looking good and hopefully it's kept the way it is, from a cosmetic outlook. The changes done to the mage order hall look nice, well as implementing the Gilneas-themed drapery and candles to the Alliance area in Dalaran.

Commentaire de cephadex

on 2016-03-31T07:19:47-05:00

Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope.\r\rMay the force Light be with you.\r\rOn a serious note, why does Alleria have a NE model instead of high elf?\r\rAlso, sorry to complain but the tremendous retcon in this upcoming expansion involving the "Nightborne" is kind of obnoxious; yeah, turns out that not only was Suramar apparently just chock full of highborne prior to the Sundering (oh Bliz, please just stop), but apparently they had such a significant presence there that they had enough arcane power to hold up a barrier to survive the Sundering, and they all developed into a new race and society there based on sorcery. Originally Suramar wasn't meant to have significant arcane anything (it's where Tyrande and the Stormarge twins are originally from), and even if there were some highborne living there long ago, it's still quite a stretch from turning that into 'and then they managed to develop an entire society based on the arcane.' Yeah, it's technically possible but it's just so forced... \r\rWhy do I get the feeling that half the reason for this 'Nightborne' nonsense is so that in the future Bliz can add another playable elf race to the game, for all the prepubescent male players who want to roll yet another, slightly different kind of elf bimbo, and players in general whose idea of creative lore is 'the town is pretty and the women are swimsuit models.' Just makes me sad whenever they force the story in that direction to accommodate to that. \r\r(If you see this, then please don't respond to this, Rankkor, you know I like you but you tend to misread my questions, sorry again.)\r\r

Commentaire de Guille18ld

on 2016-03-31T08:16:49-05:00

Welcome to Hogwarts:School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

Commentaire de matheus314

on 2016-03-31T08:38:14-05:00

@cephadex\r\rProbably a placeholder model.

Commentaire de Rankkor

on 2016-03-31T11:02:08-05:00

\r\rOn a serious note, why does Alleria have a NE model instead of high elf?\r\r\r\rIts a time-honored tradition with the windrunner sisters. Sylvanas was much the same during vanilla wow.\r\rEither that, or the more sensible explanation of Matheus, its a placeholder model. Its likely that unlike Vereesa, they aim to give her a unique model, rather than a generic high-elf model, thus for now she has a placeholder. To be honest, Turalyon also looks very generic in that screenshot, and has dark hair when in the lore he was blonde. So I'm assuming both of their models are placeholders.\r\r(If you see this, then please don't respond to this, Rankkor, you know I like you but you tend to misread my questions, sorry again.)\r\rThat hurts D=

Commentaire de aeonisdawnwing

on 2016-03-31T11:16:58-05:00

Am I the only one who is upset about warlock class order hall?\rI mean, look at this! Mages have a glorious hall, lots of books, altars, desks... And we warlocks only have floating rocks and stones...\rI was expecting warlock hall to be more like Karazhan's library section :< And mages got it instead of us.\rIt makes me sad.

Commentaire de Rankkor

on 2016-03-31T11:19:08-05:00

Regarding those spoilers about Turalyon and Alleria........

I have mixed feelings about them.

On the one hand, yes, I like that explanation for why they've been missing all this time. Apparently they were flung back in time and space, given their commentaries on how they've been fighting the legion for a thousand years, and how Turalyon is not only addressed as an Exarch (A draenei paladin title) but also wearing Draenei Paladin armor. Hinting that maybe they were thrown into the past and at some point were with the original draenei that fled Argus? The possibilities are endless.

On the other hand, this is very anti-climmatic, because it means that after decades of waiting to hear from them, turns out they've been dead all along, and will not really continue their story in the game.

I suppose I can understand why they did that. It helps solve the problem of which faction would they side with, considering 1 windrunner sister is with the horde, and the other is with the alliance, and frankly, Alleria has plenty of reasons for joining either. By having her be dead all along, this particular awkward conundrum is avoided.

But it still makes the waiting seem anti-climmatic. Still, alpha is alpha, they changed the bit with Wrathion on Highmountain and he's no longer involved, so maybe, just maybe, this bit with Turalyon and Alleria wont make it to live either? We'll see

Am I the only one who is upset about warlock class order hall?I mean, look at this! Mages have a glorious hall, lots of books, altars, desks... And we warlocks only have floating rocks and stones...I was expecting warlock hall to be more like Karazhan's library section :< And mages got it instead of us.It makes me sad.

Pfft, please U_U

At least your HAVE an order hall. If there's a class that got screwed over here, was the Death Knights.

Whatever else can be said about the warlock class hall, its at least a new location. We on the other hand, get nothing new. Just the same boring and generic ebon hold we've always had. Tiny, cramped, with old low-res textures. And no, the excuse that "this has always been your base" doesn't cut it. Druids have had moonglade since vanilla, and yet they still received a gorgeous and huge class hall.

Meanwhile what do we get? a recycled building with quite literally NOTHING new added other than a few NPCs shuffled around. Seriously, not a single asset is new, not a chair, or table, or anything. Its a carbon-copy of an already existing location. Even the Rogue Class hall has a bunch of new stuff in it, despite being in an already visited location.

Commentaire de andrewg

on 2016-03-31T11:21:40-05:00

People believe the stuff in this article including the spoiler? You do know what tomorrow is, don't you?

Commentaire de Rankkor

on 2016-03-31T11:24:16-05:00

People believe the stuff in this article including the spoiler? You do know what tomorrow is, don't you?

Tomorrow is tomorrow. Today is not April's fools. Thus, any news shared today are legit. Plus this datamining began yesterday. Plus the spoiler about Alleria and Turalyon has been covered in more than one website, not just here.

Commentaire de adutzu89

on 2016-03-31T11:35:37-05:00

\rA thousand years.....I don't.....how in the world......Turalyon is a Human and Alleria is High Elf (at least she should be old and him dead)....yet he isn't?\r\r\rCan someone please explain, the question related to Alleria and Turalyon?

Commentaire de Rankkor

on 2016-03-31T11:47:07-05:00

\rA thousand years.....I don't.....how in the world......Turalyon is a Human and Alleria is High Elf (at least she should be old and him dead)....yet he isn't?\r\r\rCan someone please explain, the question related to Alleria and Turalyon?\r\rI can.\r\rElves can live for a long long LONG time. Tyrande and Malfurion as well as Maiev are over 10000 years old. Even elves who weren't blessed by nordrassil are exceptionally long lived, for example, Prince Tortheldrin in Dire Maul, is also over 10000 years old, and he wasn't blessed by Nordrassil. So its not out of the question for Alleria to live over a thousand years.\r\rAs for Turalyon, you got me. Best I can come up with, is that both of them seem to have integrated into draenei society (as evidenced by his title of Exarch, normally reserved for Draenei Vindicators, and his Draenei Vindicator armor, which isn't normally worn by humans) and perhaps they gave him some magical mcguffin that extended his lifespan or something.\r\rI'm hoping an "official" explanation is provided in the actual game, because leaving something this big to conjectures would really not be cool.

Commentaire de Pharmicia

on 2016-03-31T12:22:01-05:00

Like others, I would rather see a guild hall. Having said that, Blizz, can you maybe show fire mages a little love in our own class hall? Lots of design elements dealing with frost and arcane but not so much on fire unless you count the torches.

Commentaire de Dharay

on 2016-03-31T12:52:28-05:00

Am I the only one who is upset about warlock class order hall?\rI mean, look at this! Mages have a glorious hall, lots of books, altars, desks... And we warlocks only have floating rocks and stones...\rI was expecting warlock hall to be more like Karazhan's library section :< And mages got it instead of us.\rIt makes me sad.\r\rNope I still think it stinks. It looks like some place you teleport to in a dungeon or to do a quest\/daily in. Sure it could be there in the nether but they could atleast add some building!\r\r\rSame as Ebon Hold could have recived a little update too.

Commentaire de adutzu89

on 2016-03-31T13:25:50-05:00

\rA thousand years.....I don't.....how in the world......Turalyon is a Human and Alleria is High Elf (at least she should be old and him dead)....yet he isn't?\r\r\rCan someone please explain, the question related to Alleria and Turalyon?\r\rI can.\r\rElves can live for a long long LONG time. Tyrande and Malfurion as well as Maiev are over 10000 years old. Even elves who weren't blessed by nordrassil are exceptionally long lived, for example, Prince Tortheldrin in Dire Maul, is also over 10000 years old, and he wasn't blessed by Nordrassil. So its not out of the question for Alleria to live over a thousand years.\r\rAs for Turalyon, you got me. Best I can come up with, is that both of them seem to have integrated into draenei society (as evidenced by his title of Exarch, normally reserved for Draenei Vindicators, and his Draenei Vindicator armor, which isn't normally worn by humans) and perhaps they gave him some magical mcguffin that extended his lifespan or something.\r\rI'm hoping an "official" explanation is provided in the actual game, because leaving something this big to conjectures would really not be cool.\r\r\rDidn't knew that High Elves could live that much, I knew that the Sunwell sustained High Elves but still didn't knew of how much, and Alleria was far from it for a long long time so she should have a normal Elf lifespan....which appearently is huge...so ty.\rAnother point which struck me is even though I don't know how much time was between Beyond The Dark Portal and The Burninc Crusade, one thing is for sure...it wasn't 1000 years, so they might went back in time \/ they anchored themselves to the Twisting Nether? They're going again with timeline surfing which will annoy a lot of players...including me.\r\r"Arator: My parents risked much to send us this warning. We must act." - which makes me think they're pretty alive and well contrary to someone posting that they might be dead. And my guess they will make an appearance in textured flesh & bones at the climax \/ end of this expansion or further in an expansion when, I think (probably), the Titan which is inside Azeroth will wake up and we will help him go after Sargeras and the Void Lords.\r

Commentaire de Taraezor

on 2016-03-31T13:40:11-05:00

That "1000" in the spoiler for the two missing lore characters. What is going on here?

Commentaire de Joshmaul

on 2016-03-31T14:50:06-05:00

That "1000" in the spoiler for the two missing lore characters. What is going on here?\r\rI think the short answer is "wibbly wobbly timey wimey...stuff".\r\rAnd I'm not sure I like it. It smells like a cop-out.